Announcements
Brief items
FSF launches "Reset the Net"
The Free Software Foundation has joined a coalition of thousands of Internet users, companies and organizations in a campaign to "Reset the Net". "Organizations and companies across the technology industry and political spectrum oppose the bulk collection of data on all internet users. Reset The Net is a day of action to secure and encrypt the web to shut out the government’s mass surveillance capabilities."
Articles of interest
Open Letter to European Commission: Stop DRM in HTML5
The Free Software Foundation Europe sent an open letter to the European Commission on May 6th (Day against DRM) asking the EC to prevent Digital Restrictions Management technology from being closely integrated with the HTML5 standard. "A W3C working group is currently standardising an "Encrypted Media Extension" (EME), which will allow companies to easily plug in non-free "Content Decryption Modules" (CDM) with DRM functionality, taking away users' control over their own computers. Most DRM technologies impose restrictions on users that go far beyond what copyright and consumers' rights allow."
International Day Against DRM
The Free Software Foundation's Defective By Design campaign has announced that today is the International Day Against DRM. "Today we come together for the eighth International Day Against DRM, to insist on a future without restrictions on our media. This is the largest anti-DRM event in the world, and it's growing. [Head over to DayAgainstDRM.org to take action against DRM with events, petitions and more, then meet the anti-DRM community and enjoy sales on DRM-free media.]"
Free Software Supporter - Issue 73, April 2014
The FSF's newsletter for April covers International Day Against DRM, protest the "Windows 8 Campus Tour", statement on Heartbleed, Document Freedom Day, GCC 4.9, GNU MediaGoblin campaign, and several other topics.FSFE Newsletter – May 2014
The Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter for May covers Heartbleed and economic incentives, Internet Censorship and Open Standards, and much more.
Calls for Presentations
Open Source Monitoring Conference 2014 – Call for papers and registration now open
OSMC 2014 will take place November 18-20 in Nuremberg, Germany. The call for papers closes June 30. "From presentations for beginners to presentations on deploying monitoring solutions in very large environments or clusters systems, the conference always offers something for everyone. As in the previous years, the conference language will be German and English."
1st Call For Papers, 21st Annual Tcl/Tk Conference 2014
The Tcl/Tk conference will take place November 10-14 in Portland, Oregon. The call for papers deadline is September 8. "The program committee is asking for papers and presentation proposals from anyone using or developing with Tcl/Tk (and extensions)."
XDC2014: Call for papers
The X.org Developer Conference 2014 will be held in Bordeaux, France from October 8-10. Proposals are due September 10. "As usual, we are open to talks across the layers of the graphics stack, from the kernel to desktop environments / graphical applications and about how to make things better for the developers who build them."
CFP Deadlines: May 8, 2014 to July 7, 2014
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9 | June 10 June 11 |
Distro Recipes 2014 - canceled | Paris, France |
| May 12 | July 19 July 20 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters | Taipei, Taiwan |
| May 18 | September 6 September 12 |
Akademy 2014 | Brno, Czech Republic |
| May 19 | September 5 | The OCaml Users and Developers Workshop | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| May 23 | August 23 August 24 |
Free and Open Source Software Conference | St. Augustin (near Bonn), Germany |
| May 30 | September 17 September 19 |
PostgresOpen 2014 | Chicago, IL, USA |
| June 6 | September 22 September 23 |
Open Source Backup Conference | Köln, Germany |
| June 6 | June 10 June 12 |
Ubuntu Online Summit 06-2014 | online, online |
| June 20 | August 18 August 19 |
Linux Security Summit 2014 | Chicago, IL, USA |
| June 30 | November 18 November 20 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| July 1 | September 5 September 7 |
BalCCon 2k14 | Novi Sad, Serbia |
| July 4 | October 31 November 2 |
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| July 5 | November 7 November 9 |
Jesień Linuksowa | Szczyrk, Poland |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: May 8, 2014 to July 7, 2014
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| May 8 May 10 |
LinuxTag | Berlin, Germany |
| May 12 May 16 |
Wireless Battle Mesh v7 | Leipzig, Germany |
| May 12 May 16 |
OpenStack Summit | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| May 13 May 16 |
Samba eXPerience | Göttingen, Germany |
| May 15 May 16 |
ScilabTEC 2014 | Paris, France |
| May 17 | Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference - Italia | Cesena, Italy |
| May 20 May 24 |
PGCon 2014 | Ottawa, Canada |
| May 20 May 21 |
PyCon Sweden | Stockholm, Sweden |
| May 20 May 22 |
LinuxCon Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| May 21 May 22 |
Solid 2014 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| May 23 May 25 |
FUDCon APAC 2014 | Beijing, China |
| May 23 May 25 |
PyCon Italia | Florence, Italy |
| May 24 | MojoConf 2014 | Oslo, Norway |
| May 24 May 25 |
GNOME.Asia Summit | Beijing, China |
| May 30 | SREcon14 | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| June 2 June 3 |
PyCon Russia 2014 | Ekaterinburg, Russia |
| June 2 June 4 |
Tizen Developer Conference 2014 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| June 9 June 10 |
Erlang User Conference 2014 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| June 9 June 10 |
DockerCon | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| June 10 June 12 |
Ubuntu Online Summit 06-2014 | online, online |
| June 10 June 11 |
Distro Recipes 2014 - canceled | Paris, France |
| June 13 June 14 |
Texas Linux Fest 2014 | Austin, TX, USA |
| June 13 June 15 |
State of the Map EU 2014 | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| June 13 June 15 |
DjangoVillage | Orvieto, Italy |
| June 17 June 20 |
2014 USENIX Federated Conferences Week | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| June 19 June 20 |
USENIX Annual Technical Conference | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| June 20 June 22 |
SouthEast LinuxFest | Charlotte, NC, USA |
| June 21 June 28 |
YAPC North America | Orlando, FL, USA |
| June 21 June 22 |
AdaCamp Portland | Portland, OR, USA |
| June 23 June 24 |
LF Enterprise End User Summit | New York, NY, USA |
| June 24 June 27 |
Open Source Bridge | Portland, OR, USA |
| July 1 July 2 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| July 5 July 11 |
Libre Software Meeting | Montpellier, France |
| July 5 July 6 |
Tails HackFest 2014 | Paris, France |
| July 6 July 12 |
SciPy 2014 | Austin, Texas, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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